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KMi nets £106k UKRI grant to put AI in the grant-review driving seat

KMi nets £106k UKRI grant to put AI in the grant-review driving seat

KMi researchers have secured £106,078 from UKRI’s Metascience Unit to explore how large language models can streamline grant peer review without diluting fairness. The 12-month project, led by Prof Petr Knoth and Dr Francesco Osborne in partnership with Sheffield and Salford universities, will test four AI roles: triaging low-quality proposals, acting as a third reviewer,…

MK Tech Week: OU hosts ‘Building Safer Digital Futures’ – uniting researchers, MPs and community to end online violence against women

MK Tech Week at the OU

As part of Milton Keynes Tech Week, the Centre for Protecting Women Online ran the event “Building Safer Digital Futures: Responsible AI and Tech to Protect Women Online” at The Open University. Emily Darlington MP opened the programme with a powerful keynote, sharing personal experiences and highlighting why tackling online violence against women and girls remains such…

Beyond the buzzword: AI, inclusion and the future of adult learning  

Future of adult and lifelong learning in the age of AI

Tuesday September 23rd, as part of MK Tech Week 2025 and alongside Esther Spring, KMi’s Prof. John Domingue chaired a conference in our Hub Theatre, sponsored by Infosys, which welcomed 150 educators, policy-makers, artists and technologists to explore how artificial intelligence can widen—rather than disrupt—opportunities for adult learners. Opened by Emily Darlington MP and OU…

Shifting Power Hosts First “Thought Collective” on Queer AI in Margate

Riv and Tracie

This summer, the Shifting Power project launched its first “Thought Collective” in Margate, Kent—an experimental workshop exploring the intersection of queer theory and practice, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Led by Dr. Tracie Farrell and collaborating artist Liz Rosenfeld, the event brought together twelve queer artists and AI researchers to imagine how AI could support the creation…

KMi claims Best Paper at ACM Hypertext 2025

Best paper award

KMi is delighted to announce that the paper “Literary Hypertext, AI and Google’s New Web: an Aesthetic Discussion”, by Alessio Antonini, Lucia Lupi, Mariusz Pisarski and Sam Brooker, received the Best Paper Award at this year’s ACM Hypertext conference in Chicago. The study asks what happens to the web when AI becomes both author and…

KMi’s report from SEMANTiCS 2025

Angelo Salatino at SEMANTiCS 2025

The 21st edition of the International Conference on Semantic Systems, commonly known as SEMANTiCS, took place in Vienna last week. This yearly event brings together academics and industry professionals to transfer knowledge and advance innovation. Around 300 participants from across Europe and beyond attended SEMANTiCS 2025. Major themes discussed included various combinations of symbolic and…

KMi wins OU recognition of Excellence in Teaching Award

achievements on SFD

KMi has won a 2025 OU Recognition of Excellence in Teaching (RET) Award for its work on the Student Facing Dashboard (SFD), demonstrating the valuable support that technology can provide for teaching and learning.  Over the past two years, the OU Analyse team at KMi, alongside colleagues in FBL and IET, has developed a student-facing…

KMi experts present insights on Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence to UN committee

Miri, Angel and Olga at the UN

KMi’s Prof. Miriam Fernandez and Dr. Angel Pavón Pérez, recently visited the United Nations in Geneva to present key insights on technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). They were joined by Professor Olga Jurasz. Their briefing highlighted the significant economic and democratic damages inflicted by TFGBV,…

KMi with a impactful presence at Open Repositories 2025

KMi with a impactful Presence at Open Repositories 2025

Earlier this year, the Open Repositories 2025 (OR2025) conference in Chicago was eagerly anticipated, with CORE set to showcase its contributions to open science infrastructure. Focusing on responsible AI use, metadata innovation, and national repository coordination, CORE’s presence at the conference was both significant and impactful. On Day 1, Petr Knoth introduced SDG Classify, an…